Hi everybody, I've created this blog to keep you updated on how we're getting on in Oman (if anybody is interested) and hopefully as a place to post some nice photos.
So, I've been here for about a month now and Hannah arrived a week ago. The first 3 weeks on my own were mostly boring - just working and sleeping and calling Hannah. With temperatures reaching over 45 it was hard to do anything at all!
I'm not going to give a day by day account so I'll give you a quick run down of how things have gone.
School - I started working at Azzan Bin Qais the day after I got here. It's a nice school but I quickly realised that Omani kids are little shits, just like the kids at home really. As a result I haven't done much teaching yet mostly just ear-bashing which I'm much better at than I thought I'd be. Now Hannah has started working there too which is nice the kids all think she's beautiful and interrupt my lessons to tell me so.
Weather - It's been hot!
Muscat - We still haven't seen that much of the city yet. It's much more spread out than I thought it'd be. It's difficult to travel around so we've been spending a lot of time and money in taxis everyday (a good place to practice speaking Arabic) . From what we've seen it's a really nice, clean, safe city and as soon as we're driving I'm sure it'll get nicer. We're yet to visit the actual old town of Muscat but we did visit another small port called Muttrah and wandered around the souk for a while and bought some frankinsense.
Other than that, not much else to say yet, we're settling in well, just relaxing and enjoying the sun. We've met some really nice people who've made us feel welcome and invited us to a few parties where we downed magnums of champagne and jumped in the pool at 4 a.m. so can't really complain too much.
I'll update this again when we've explored a bit more and I can stick some photos up.
Ma'asalama.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
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